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Esther M Friedman
Faculty Associate, Training Faculty
Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center and Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
Research Associate Professor, Survey Research Center and Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
Research Interests:
Esther Friedman is a Research Associate Professor at the Survey Research Center, where she also serves as an Associate Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Dr. Friedman is a sociologist whose research examines how families and communities facilitate the health and wellbeing of older adults. Much of her recent work focuses on family caregiving and long-term care. She is currently leading a study for which she is collecting and analyzing new data on the social support networks of family caregivers to persons with dementia.
Select Publications
- David P. Kennedy, Esther M Friedman, Allison Kirkegaard, Sarah Edgington, Regina Shih. 2024. Perceived loss of support to community caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Journal of Community Psychology
- Kirkegaard, Allison, Esther M Friedman, Edgington, Sarah, Kennedy, David. 2024. Increased Care Provision and Caregiver Wellbeing: Moderation by Changes in Social Network Care Provision. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 79(5):gbae015.
- Esther M Friedman, Scott R. Beach, Richard Schulz. 2023. Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending at Older Ages: Do Caregiving Arrangements Matter?. Journal of Applied Gerontology 42(5):1013-1021.
- Kim, Hansol, Beach, Scott R, Esther M Friedman, Donovan, Heidi, Schulz, Richard. 2023. Effects of Childcare, Work, and Caregiving Intensity on Male and Female Family Caregivers. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 78(6):959-968.
- Vicki A Freedman, Agree, Emily M, Seltzer, Judith A, Birditt,Kira S, Fingerman, Karen L, Esther M Friedman, Lin, I-Fen, Margolis, Rachel, Park, Sung S, Patterson,Sarah Elizabeth, Polenick, Courtney A, Reczek, Rin, Reyes, Adriana M, Truskinovsky, Yulya, Wiemers, Emily E, Wu, Huijing, Wolf, Douglas A, Wolff, Jennifer L, Zarit, Steven H. 2023. Changing Demography of Late-Life Family Caregiving: A Research Agenda to Understand Future Care Networks for An Aging U.S. Population. The Gerontologist
- Vicki A Freedman, Agree, Emily M, Seltzer, Judith A, Birditt,Kira S, Fingerman, Karen L, Esther M Friedman, Lin, I-Fen, Margolis, Rachel, Park, Sung S, Patterson,Sarah Elizabeth, Polenick, Courtney A, Reczek, Rin, Reyes, Adriana M, Truskinovsky, Yulya, Wiemers, Emily E, Wu, Huijing, Wolf, Douglas A, Wolff, Jennifer L, Zarit, Steven H. 2023. The Changing Demography of Late-Life Family Caregiving: A Research Agenda to Understand Future Care Networks for an Aging U.S. Population. The Gerontologist
- Waymouth, Molly, Siconolfi, Daniel, Esther M Friedman, Saliba, Debra, Ahluwalia, Sangeeta C, Shih, Regina A. 2023. Barriers and Facilitators to Home- and Community-Based Services Access for Persons With Dementia and Their Caregivers. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 78(6):1085-1097.
- Esther M Friedman, Allison Kirkegaard, David P. Kennedy, Sarah Edgington, Regina A. Shih. 2023. Change in Caregiving to Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Differences by Dementia Status. Journal of Applied Gerontology 42(12):2277-2282.
- Friedman,Esther M, Houle, Jason N, Cagney,Kathleen Anne, Slaughter, Mary E, Shih, Regina A. 2021. The Foreclosure Crisis, Community Change, and the Cognitive Health of Older Adults. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 76(5):956-967.